Dannie Abse has won the 2008 Book of the Year award for his volume The Presence  (Hutchinson). The winner of the Welsh-language award is Gareth Miles for  Y Proffwyd a’i Ddwy Jesebel  (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch).

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